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Space Economy Featured

Amazon Has 85 Days Left on Its Space Internet Promise. It Hasn't Launched a Satellite Since July.

Amazon says its Starlink rival starts commercial service this quarter. Its own mission log shows no launches since July 2, a waived FCC deadline behind it, and a spectrum penalty running to 2028 — the launch math, the Globalstar spread, and how to position.

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Energy Featured

A Data Revision Crashed Lithium 22%. China's Biggest Mine Is Still Shut.

Lithium carbonate just hit its 2026 low — not on new supply, but on a stockpile restatement that doubled China's reported inventory overnight. Meanwhile the mine behind the whole rally lost its environmental approval again. One of these moves is temporary.

Macro Featured

The Bond Market Just Demoted France

French 10-year yields touched 5% for the first time since 2002, the euro is at a 17-month low, and France now borrows at higher rates than Italy. How the eurozone's second economy lost the benefit of the doubt — and why it matters for your money.

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Markets Featured

$PENG: Penguin Solutions Just Guided 40% Growth at a Mid-Teens Multiple. The Memory Cycle Is Both the Reason and the Risk

Penguin Solutions beat Q4 by a wide margin and guided FY2027 to roughly 40% growth, yet trades near 14x forward earnings, 29% below its July high. We price all three paths: the AI-infrastructure rerate, the cyclical grind, and the memory-cycle rollover.

Markets Featured

Eight Justices Will Decide Whether a Jury Can Price Climate Change

The Supreme Court opened its 2026-27 term with Big Oil in the dock: Suncor v. Boulder County could extinguish dozens of climate lawsuits or send them toward juries -- and Justice Alito's recusal makes the math harder for the industry.

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Geopolitics Featured

The Middle East's Last Open Chokepoint Is Now a Battlefield

Hormuz has been shut for seven months. On Monday, Saudi-backed forces retook the coast around Bab el-Mandeb — the strait carrying 12% of global trade — and three armies agreed to deploy. What reopens, what escalates, and how to tell which is coming.

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Markets Featured

GTA VI Is 44 Days Away. The Market Keeps Selling the Company That Owns It.

Take-Two is six weeks from the biggest entertainment launch ever recorded, with pre-orders management calls unprecedented — and a stock down 20% from its July high. Somebody on this trade is wrong.

Markets Featured

Candidates Are Betting on Their Own Elections. Congress Just Noticed.

A battleground-district candidate was fined for trading contracts on her own race. Her opponent just filed the first federal bill to ban it — as America heads into its first prediction-market election.

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Markets Featured

$BEAT: HeartBeam Traded Its Share Count Seven Times Over on an FDA Badge That Clears Nothing. Pricing the Breakthrough

HeartBeam spiked as much as 119% on an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for at-home heart attack detection. The indication is not cleared, a $25M ATM equals two-thirds of the market cap, and Nasdaq's clock runs out December 28. We priced all four paths.

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Markets Featured

C.H. Robinson Is Paying $5.8 Billion for RXO. The Market Took Half of It Back by Lunch.

The largest freight broker in North America is buying the third-largest at the turn of the cycle. RXO holders got a 29% premium; C.H. Robinson holders lost $2.8 billion by midday. The deal math, the arb spread, and who gets consolidated next.

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Markets Featured

Vietnam Is Running Its Economy Like China in 2007

Vietnam just posted 9.95% growth and joined FTSE's emerging-market index in the same month — yet the dong is at record lows, inflation is above target, and the Vietnam ETF sold off. The math behind Hanoi's double-digit ambition looks uncomfortably like Beijing's in 2007.

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Markets Featured

$PCVX: Vaxcyte Just Swept the Year's Biggest Vaccine Readout. Pricing the 53% Premarket Repricing

VAX-31 met every primary endpoint in its pivotal adult Phase 3 against Prevnar 20 and Capvaxive, and the stock gapped to a record. The share math, the serotype 3 fine print, the cash clock, and scenario zones for all four paths from here.

Macro Featured

The Most Expensive Open Enrollment in 20 Years Starts November 1

Employer health costs are set for their biggest jump since 2003, ACA insurers want a median 15% more, and the subsidies that cushioned the marketplace are gone. America's next inflation shock is in the benefits packet.

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Markets Featured

Diesel at $6.50 Just Ended the Freight Recession

U.S. diesel set an all-time record in September. Truckers are rejecting one in seven contracted loads, small carriers are folding, and rate hikes are landing a month early. The three-year freight recession is ending — from the supply side.

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Markets Featured

America's Accidental Cannabis Market Has 68 Days to Live

A 2018 farm-bill loophole built a $28 billion intoxicating-hemp market sold in gas stations nationwide. Congress closed it, the deadline is December 11 — and the fight over who inherits the shelf space is already underway.

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Markets Featured

Top 10 Stocks We're Watching This Week — Earnings Eve Edition

A 29,000-jobs shock, hike odds fading while the 10-year holds 5.28 percent, Anthropic's roadshow live, and the banks a week away. Ten names for the waiting-room week, all tracked on the Watchlist from Friday's closes.

Macro Featured

America Stopped Hiring. The Fed Is Still Hiking.

29,000 jobs in September. July revised to a net loss. The Fed hiked into a frozen labor market and claimed job gains were keeping pace. What the freeze means for rates, wages, and your money.

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SpaceX Featured

Everyone Is Fighting Over Electrons. Musk Is Leaving the Planet.

The SPCX deep dive: Starship just reached orbit, the FCC filing asks for a million orbital data centers, and every business under the ticker is a derivative of one number, the price of a kilogram. The money map, the December lockup, the Mars window, and how we would position.

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Markets Featured

Superbugs Kill a Million People a Year. Curing Them Is a Failing Business.

The superbug drug pipeline has shrunk 35% in five years while resistant infections kill more than a million people annually. The science works; the business model doesn't - and one policy catalyst could reprice the entire sector.

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Finance Featured

The SEC Just Told Every Money Manager in America How to Hold Crypto

The SEC's new custody proposal gives America's $176.8 trillion adviser industry its first compliant path to holding crypto. The market shrugged. The custody toll-takers are the trade.

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Artificial Intelligence Featured

Everyone Can Count the Trillions. Nobody Can Tell You Who Gets Paid Back.

Forbes toured the trillions. We answer what the scale tours never do: the $4.2 trillion revenue hole, the circular money problem, the five layers of the buildout ranked by who gets paid first, what breaks first, and the trade, with our tracked positions as receipts.

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Markets Featured

Wall Street Already Voted in Brazil's Election

Brazilians vote Sunday in a dead-heat race between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro — and bullish options bets on Brazilian stocks just hit a 19-year high. Here's what's priced in, and what breaks if the market's favored scenario loses.

Infrastructure Featured

Congress Finally Has a Deal to Unclog the Grid. Data Centers Get the Bill.

Four senators from opposite ends of the spectrum just introduced the permitting overhaul Washington has chased for a decade — durable permits, federal transmission authority, and a rule making data centers pay for their own grid upgrades.

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Finance Featured

The Slow-Motion Run on Private Credit

Blackstone's flagship retail credit fund has gated withdrawals two quarters running, Blue Owl is liquidating a fund outright, and the public market is pricing identical loans anywhere from par to 72 cents. The dispersion is the trade.

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Markets Featured

$MAT: A $20 Whisper for a $12 Stock. Pricing the Authentic Brands Approach to Mattel

Mattel jumped 19% on a reported $20-per-share takeover approach from Authentic Brands, one day after losing its CEO. The share math, the buyer's financing problem, and scenario-by-scenario price zones.